Steem - Distribution of Posts by Account

An interesting picture is beginning to emerge from this series of deep dives into Steemit Account Activity.

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In this Series of Posts I am taking a close look at Steem Accounts. The numbers and distribution represent a significant but often misunderstood and misquoted metric for the state of Steem and Steemit. Let's dig in and see what the data is telling us!

In November and December there has been a lot of activity. We are all getting a bonanza for our posts with the Steem Dollar being so high. I am sure this has contributed to the increased posting activity we regularly see on other stats reports but at times it can be difficult to isolate trends.

• For example some of this extra activity could be a result of successful promotional activity by the community following Steemfest.
• On the other hand it might all be because of the price and in that case it's not really organic growth.

To get behind some of the trends its useful to cut the data in different ways and see if any pattern emerges.

Posting Distributions

The following few graphs show the distribution of the number of posts, and number of comments by user accounts.

Posts Distribution

Let's first look at the number of posts in the months of November and December.
How many posts have come from unique accounts?

In November 11,588 accounts made just 1 post. 13,905 in December.
This count is of main top level posts not including comments, we will look at comments separately below.

This first picture says we get a lot of accounts that post a small number of posts but few that post many.
The darker blue area on this graph represents between 1 and 4 posts per day.

If people are posting more than this it's likely it is being posted by a bot or else people are just pumping out content. Not every account will be posting an article a day but as people start using the platform more and more we might see this area flatten.

Comments Distribution

These next two graphs repeat the same analysis but on comments.

This second picture says the same as for posts, we get a lot of accounts that post a small number of comments but few that post many. The key difference is here is that the distribution is flatter. i.e. people comment more often than they post.

Observations

• Of the accounts that post, 93% post less than one post a day.
• Of the accounts that comment, 78% comment less than one time a day and the comments have a much fatter tail in terms of multiple comments.

The fatter the tail in these graphs the more automated posts Steemit is experiencing, and is likely a proxy for quality also. This will be one to watch over time but I will point out that not all these high frequency posters are spammers. Frequent posts may just be a nice format to get stats on a regular basis, for example for Steem price statistics. This can serve a useful function on Steemit.

Let me know what you think of these stats and if the picture that they present concurs with your observations from interacting with the platform. The goal here is to isolate trends and develop useful metrics for monitoring the growth of user activity on Steem.

Related Posts

I am taking a deep dive into the Accounts of Users in this series of posts. You may also be interest in:

• https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-account-activity
• https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-geographical-distribution-of-accounts

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